The autumn day was high, vaguely warm, Li Yuan followed Peng Qingying to the edge of the woodland to dig a few wild vegetables, and picked some mountain mushrooms on the way back, and then Li Yuan went to the river to carry a few buckets of water back, and Peng Qingying began to wash vegetables and cook.

Lunch was simple, fried mountain mushrooms, scalded wild vegetables, but Li Yuan ate extremely sweet, ate it in one go, and constantly praised Peng Qingying. Peng Qingying was naturally very happy, and after cleaning up the bowl, she took a mat and a small bamboo pillow to Li Yuan and let him rest for a while. Li Yuan said that he didn't need to take a nap, and Peng Qingying didn't insist, so he went to the second floor of the wooden house by himself.

Li Yuan moved a chair and sat under the wooden porch in front of the house, blowing the gentle breeze and looking at the beautiful scenery around him, watching the white clouds and the gurgling river, and his mood was extremely calm and peaceful. I have to say that life here is bitter and boring, but the scenery here is really beautiful. If you are really a pure cultivator who has no quarrel with the world, you will definitely like to live here, and even live your whole life, but you are not that kind of person.

Fish jumped out of the water from time to time in the river not far away, which attracted Li Yuan's attention. Although the lunch meal was delicious, it was a vegetarian dish after all. Li Yuan's stomach has long been nourished by wine and meat on weekdays, and he will feel delicious when he occasionally eats a vegetarian dish, but when he thinks of eating vegetarian dishes every day, his scalp is a little numb.

Thinking that there is nothing to do, so another person is free, since there are fish in this river, why not catch some and let Peng Qingying have some fish to eat.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan immediately took action, picked up the axe that was placed diagonally behind the house, went to the mountain forest against the sun, cut some wood, dragged it to the side of the river and began to make tools. It is nothing more than making a harpoon, a thin wooden pole of uniform thickness is cut into a plum blossom shape at the head, sharpened and squeezed into the gap of another thicker wooden pole, and then tightly tied with rattan to make a beautiful harpoon.

Later, Li Yuan found a bamboo basket in the wooden house, and hung it around his waist with a straw rope.

Peng Qingying didn't take a break, she had been secretly watching Li Yuan's movements from the window on the second floor, and saw that Li Yuan was chopping wood and making things, and he was very busy, and he didn't know what he was going to do, so he turned his head down and shouted, "What are you going to do?" ”

Li Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead, raised his head and said with a smile: "Look at me going to the river to catch a few fish, let's cook and eat them at night." Are you coming? ”

Peng Qingying frowned and said, "But I don't know water." ”

Li Yuan smiled: "You just look at me from the shore." ”

Peng Qingying happily ran downstairs and saw that Li Yuan had already walked to the shallows with a harpoon and a fish basket on his back, and walked around the shore barefoot with great interest. After groping in the shallows for a while, Li Yuan said loudly: "No, fish like places where the water is deeper, and they can't be caught here." Qingying, don't come here, I'm going into the water. ”

Listening to the sound of running water in her ears, Peng Qingying was stunned, and just wanted to speak, but saw Li Yuan start to take off his robe quickly, revealing his strong muscles. Peng Qingying blushed with shame, and couldn't help but say angrily: "What are you doing here...... The words did not fall, but seeing Li Yuan's "plop", he untied the bamboo basket and only held the harpoon, and plunged straight into the river like a flying fish, making a huge splash.

Peng Qingying screamed in surprise and covered her face with her hands, but she was still splashed by the splashing cool water droplets, and stomped her feet to look into the water while wiping the water droplets.

Li Yuan's figure was nowhere to be seen, and at first a black shadow could be seen swimming in the river, but after a while, nothing could be seen, not even blisters. Peng Qingying stood on the shore, looking directly at the water, anxiously searching for Li Yuan's figure, but as time passed, Ah Luo was a little flustered, the time was too long, could it be that Li Yuan couldn't come up?

"Where are you? Where are you? Peng Qingying began to scream, and the voice echoed on the surface of the river, and no one answered except for the echo.

"Don't scare me!" Peng Qingying's shout was full of crying, after all, this dark river is notoriously deep.

Suddenly, there was a "bang" in the center of the river, and Li Yuan quickly popped up like a shuttle dart, wiping the water droplets on his face with one hand, and holding a harpoon high with the other, and a two-foot-long big fish on it was twisting its body and jumping.

"Qingying, do you see? What a fat fish! Isn't it tyrannical that you live by this river, sitting on a river full of fish, but eating vegetarian vegetables and rice every day? Li Yuan laughed and shouted.

Peng Qingying's heart finally fell, and she hurriedly got closer, and after Li Yuan swam back to the shore, she took the jumping fish, threw it into the bamboo basket, and said eagerly: "You scared me to death!" I didn't come up for a long time, I thought you wouldn't be able to come up......"

Li Yuan shook his long wet hair and smiled: "Why, do you think you are going to be a widow?" You think it's beautiful. ”

Peng Qingying blushed and whispered: "Hmph, it's a matter of life and death, I'm naturally worried about you, what do you think!" ”

Li Yuan laughed, then stretched his waist a few times, and then jumped into the water again, Peng Qingying also knew that Li Yuan's water was good, but he no longer worried about him. Soon after, Li Yuan resurfaced, and another big fish was hit by a harpoon and jumped on the harpoon.

"Wow! What a big fish, even fatter than the one just now! Peng Qingying exclaimed in surprise.

Li Yuan swam back with a smile, and after Peng Qingying took the fish and put it in the basket, he said happily: "I knew that the fish were so easy to catch, so I learned to swim and catch the fish by myself." ”

Li Yuan was dumbfounded: "The fish are easy to catch? The fish here are so shrewd that I have been chasing them for a long time before I hit the fork twice, and you can tell that the water is surprisingly cold, cold to the bone, and very uncomfortable. ”

Peng Qingying was stunned and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you, this dark river is flowing down from the high mountains, and now it's autumn, it's naturally cold and biting, you come up quickly, don't freeze your body." ”

Li Yuan shook his head and smiled: "You really care about me, not bad." But I'm going to have to catch one more, one tonight, and two more tomorrow, and I don't want to just eat wild vegetables. ”

After catching the third fish, Li Yuan dragged his wet body and climbed ashore, Peng Qingying hurriedly ran back to the wooden house, took a cloth towel to wipe the cold water on Li Yuan's body, and carefully dried Li Yuan's scattered wet long hair.

The three large fish were eviscerated, sprinkled with a little salt, hung up to dry, and waited for the evening to cook, and the afternoon passed quickly. Before the sun set, Li Yuan brought water and watered some of the fruits and vegetables planted by Peng Qingying near the wooden house.

Naturally, there was a fat fish on the dinner table in the evening. The pure natural fish is delicious, there are no complicated condiments in this era, and there are only some simple left ingredients such as salt, but the fish soup is still delicious, the two of them ate all the fish and drank the fish soup, smacked their tongues and smiled.

After dinner, the two spread out mats by the river and sat in the moonlight and chatted. Peng Qingying told Li Yuan a lot of the legends and stories of the various ethnic groups in Dongxi, and Li Yuan also told Peng Qingying some things she had never heard of. But from beginning to end, the two just talked and laughed, and seemed to deliberately avoid sensitive topics between the two, and even avoided too much collision and exchange of eyes.

Although on this moonlit night, lonely men and widows are living together in the mountains and forests, and the temptation can be seen, but they still deliberately restrained each other, until late at night, Li Yuan finally closed his eyes in a daze and fell asleep peacefully in Peng Qingying's gentle words.

Peng Qingying sat aside, staring at Li Yuan's face with a smile for a long time, and finally sighed lightly and picked up the thin quilt to cover Li Yuan, and went upstairs alone. This night, the candlelight in Peng Qingying's room was lit for a long time, and it was only extinguished after dawn......

Early the next morning, Peng Qingying brought Li Yuan a set of clothes out of nowhere, which was a kind of clothing often worn by Dongxi people, a leather felt hat, with huge shoulders, and tight cloth shirts and trousers. Li Yuan did not shirk, directly changed into this set of clothes and pants, and instantly transformed into a handsome Dongxi brother.

In fact, this is a new set of clothes that Peng Qingying made for Li Yuan all night, although the women of Dongxi are good at sewing leather clothes, but the pampered Peng Qingying is the first time to make clothes for people, and the fabrics used are naturally made of local materials, all of which are their own flower skirts and cloths, so that Li Yuan has some bells and whistles after wearing them, which looks nondescript, but Li Yuan does not feel the slightest weirdness, and says words that Peng Qingying does not understand, but it is always a compliment.

The second day was also very ordinary, nothing more than continuing to pick vegetables, picking fruits, watering flowers, catching fish, and telling stories to each other in the moonlight at night. One of the two was wearing a leather skirt and a flowered dress, and the other was wearing a felt hat and shoulders, looking like an ordinary Dongxi couple, living a simple and turbulent life.

If any uninformed people see these two people, it is estimated that it is unimaginable that among these two people, one is the lord of Dongxi and the sister of Peng Guogong, and the other is the hottest governor of Langzhou in the Tang Dynasty and the envoy of the Wuping Army.

The second day will soon pass, and in the two days, no one has come to disturb it, Peng Shiyu seems to be deliberately not disturbing Li Yuan and Peng Qingying, and he has not sent any soldiers to check, and Lin Sichang and other personal guards who are in charge of protecting Li Yuan are naturally even more anxious like ants on a hot pot, but they are helpless, they can only stare and wait outside Li Xu.

The moonlight was thick, and when Peng Qingying finished telling the last story with her hands dancing, Li Yuan got up, took off the clothes, changed into the purple robe she was wearing when she came, and walked alone to the mottled river.

Next to the river, a cool breeze blows, making people feel comfortable. The footsteps behind her were gentle, Peng Qingying was stunned for a long time, and finally reacted, and at this moment she also walked gently to Li Yuan's side, the silver ribbon tied up in a high bun, revealing a slender and elegant neck, which set off her figure tall and elegant.

"You're leaving, aren't you?" In silence, Peng Qingying said softly.

Li Yuan sighed and nodded, "Yes, it's been two days." It was the happiest two days I've had, but I had to go. After all, there are still many things to do for me, and I can't stay here anymore. ”

The two were speechless and silent for a while, but they heard the mountain wind whirring at night, the sound of running water, the chirping of birds and insects, and Lin Tao echoed in the sky and earth like a tide.